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Privacy Literacy Through Storytelling

Jennifer Holland

Relational privacy is an emerging area of exploration that situates the relationship between identity and privacy within a social framework. Relational privacy theorists see privacy as an interpersonal boundary by which an individual or group regulates interaction with others, as well as a bidirectional and dialectical process between the self and others that is mediated through language. For relational privacy theorists, context is important…

As a pedagogy, storytelling offers a number of benefits…. Storytelling is supported by a number of learning theories, including constructivism, the way humans build knowledge upon prior knowledge and social constructivism, the way knowledge is generated from interaction with others. Storytelling pedagogy is also grounded in narrative theory, which suggests that knowledge is built within the context and structure of narratives, and affective learning theory, which acknowledges the role that emotion, attitudes, and motivation play when it comes to creating new knowledge.

Holland, J. (2023, Nov. 14). Privacy Literacy Through Storytelling [Conference presentation]. DLF 2023 Forum, St. Louis, MO, USA. https://osf.io/2spqe

Contributor: Chelcie Juliet Rowell, Harvard University Library; co-convener of the ACRL Privacy Literacy Discussion Group and co-principal investigator of the National Forum on the Prevention of Cyber Sexual Abuse.

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